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E. MARTIN.

PROTECTING DEVICE FOR AMMUNITION. APPLICATION FILED MAY I4, 1918.

'jjjiiiiI atto'mag EUGENE MARTIN, or TOULOUSE, FRANCE.

PROTECTING DEVICE r012. AMMUNITION.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 26, 1919.

Application filed May 14, 1918. Serial No. 234,566.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that EUGENE MARTIN, citizen of France, residing at Toulouse, (Haute Garonne,) 22 Rue des Conteliers, has 1nvented certain new and useful Improvements in Protecting Devices for Ammunition, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This protecting device is composed of a girth or strap formed of jute, hemp or other textile matter braids, Which is made in the desired sizes and applied to the object on which the same constitutes an elastic or yielding cushion and to which the said strap is attached by suitable fixtures.

Laid over the girth and secured to the latter is an armor plate or shield formed of flexible hoop iron which protects the said girth from outside shocks.

The following description is applied, by way of example, to the protection of ashell girdle.

Figure 1 is a front view, the protecting device being in position, and the shield tongue incompletely lowered;

Fig. 2 is a side view;

Fig. 3 is a sectional view; and

Fig. 4: is a detail of the fixture.

Fig. 5 is a detail view showing a modified form of wire connecting device.

a is braid. girth,

b the hoop or strip iron shield or armor plate,

0 the fixing bonds, hoops, or segments,

d the notches in the iron strap for passing therethrough the connecting threads or wires of the shield and segments,

6 the clips for connecting the shield and segments together with the braid, and finally,

f the hooks or fixtures which connect the bond or hoop ends together and strongly clamp the protecting device upon the shell.

The said shield and fastening bands may be attached to the braid by string, iron wire, metallic fixtures or any other means.

The fastening segments have both of their ends terminated in hooks and are somewhat shorter than the periphery of the said pro tecting device.

To one hook is secured the end of a string or wire which serves to attach the protecting device and firmly keep the same in position. For setting up, the string or wire is passed from one hook to the other while keeping the same strongly tight and so with a number of times around by passing from a hook to the other and preferably crossing the threads or wires, then finally passing the free end of the strlng or Wire between theobject to be protected and the fastening threads or wires. One may also make several coils and complete by a knot, or tie the string end to a hook and lower the hoops on to the girth while clamping the string within the hook or clasp.

The ends of the fastening segments may be also terminated by a loop or ring and have such a length as to cross both the rings when the protecting device is clamped upon the object. The segments are then secured either by a split pin or by a rivet or any other fixture, as shown in Fig. 5.

The iron strap of the shield has at one end a slot and at the other end a feather or tongue which engages the slot and is lowered on itself after having been tightened.

Each end of the shield iron band or hoop is slotted and they are coupled by extending the tongue 6 through said slot.

The said protecting device may be also applled to square, triangular, rectangular, etc., object s. One or several of such protecting devices may be applied to one article.

Claims 1. In a protecting device for bodies, a girth member extending around the body, a band inclosing the said member, hoops extending around the said girth member on each side of said band, means for securing the ends of said hoops together, and tie wires connecting the hoops on each side of said band.

2. In a protecting device for bodies, a girth member extending around the body, a band inclosing said girth, the said band having openings in its surface, hoops inclosing said girth and arranged upon each side of said band, and tie members connecting the hoops on the opposite sides of said band and extending through said openings.

3. In a protecting device for bodies, a fabric girth extending around the body, an open band inclosing the said girth, means for securing the ends of said band together, hoops extending around said girth one upon each side thereof, and tie members connecting said hoops and extending across said band.

4. In a protecting device for bodies, a fabric girth extending around the body, an open band inclosing said girth, a tongue on one end of said band, and the opposite end of said band having an opening therein to receive said tongue.

5. In a protecting device for bodies, a girth extending around the body, an Open band inclosing the girth, a tongue on one end of said band, the opposite end of said band having an opening to receive said tongue, hoops arranged around said girth and one upon each side of said band, means 10 for securing said hoops upon said girth, and tie members connecting the said hoops.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of tWo Witnesses.

E. MARTIN. Witnesses:

PAUL FoLLIN, HENRI FoLLIN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

' Washington, D. O. 

